Kawarthas
The Kawarthas or Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario, Canada, is located one to two hours by car northeast of Toronto, and is considered part of Central Ontario.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Peterborough and Lindsay.
Peterborough
Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The City of Peterborough is considered the hub of the Kawarthas, and is the region's major business, education, cultural, and health care centre. This is a varied community -- a retirement city, but at the same time a university and college city.
Lindsay
Lindsay is a community of about 22,000 people in the Kawarthas region of central Ontario 43 km west of Peterborough. The centre of culture and business in the City of Kawartha Lakes, it offers theater, festivals, historic sites, museums, artisan studios, and streets lined with locally-owned shops, galleries, and restaurants.
Bobcaygeon
Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bobcaygeon is a community of about 3,600 people in the Kawarthas region of Central Ontario. Built on three islands, it was settled in 1832. It is a popular place for shopping and sport fishing.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Buckhorn, Lakefield and Stoney Lake and Fenelon Falls.
Buckhorn, Lakefield and Stoney Lake
Photo: Nash Gordon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Buckhorn, Lakefield and Stoney Lake is the primarily rural cottage country situated north of Peterborough in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. For the purposes of this guide, it includes the communities of Buckhorn, Lakefield, Bridgenorth, Burleigh Falls and surrounding areas.
Fenelon Falls
Photo: Floydian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fenelon Falls, "the Jewel of the Kawarthas", is a community of about 1,800 permanent residents that grew up around the 23 ft waterfalls that were used to power a flour mill.
Kawarthas
- Type: City with 75,400 residents
- Description: city in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “City of Kawartha Lakes”, “Kawartha Lakes”, “Kawartha Lakes, ON”, and “Kawartha Lakes, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Brock, Durham, Scugog, and Simcoe County
- Categories: single-tier municipality, census division of Ontario, and locality
- Location: Central Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
44.3597° or 44° 21′ 35″ northLongitude of center
-78.7422° or 78° 44′ 32″ westPopulation
75,400Elevation
265 metres (869 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 6180141852OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Kawarthas from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kawarthas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كورثا ليكس”
- Asturian: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Cebuano: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Chinese: “卡沃瑟湖区”
- Chinese: “卡沃瑟湖區”
- Chinese: “卡沃薩湖市”
- Dagbani: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kawartha Lakes, Ontario”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kawartha Lakes”
- Dutch: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورثا ليكس”
- Esperanto: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Finnish: “Kawartha Lakes”
- French: “Kawartha Lakes”
- German: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Hungarian: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Italian: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Japanese: “カワーサ・レイクス”
- Japanese: “カワーサレイクス”
- Persian: “کاوارتا لیکس”
- Polish: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Portuguese: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Russian: “Каварта-Лейкс”
- Serbian: “Kawartha Lakes, Ontario”
- Serbian: “Каворта Лејкс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kawartha Lakes”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاوارتا لیکس”
- Spanish: “Kawartha Lakes (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Swedish: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Tagalog: “Kawartha Lakes, Ontario”
- Tagalog: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Turkish: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Ukrainian: “Каварта-Лейкс”
- Urdu: “کاورتھا لیکس”
- Volapük: “Kawartha Lakes”
- Western Panjabi: “کوارتھا لیک”
- “Kawartha Lakes”
Central Ontario: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Barrie, Collingwood, Orillia, and Haliburton Highlands.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kawarthas”. Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.